영어 양상동사(modality verb)의 한국어 번역유형에 관한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the patterns of Korean translation of the English modality verb. For this, 160 constructions that is from one popular novel were used to study how to translate English to Korean in the translation. According to translating the patterns of English modality verbs, they were divided into four types: 'translating into a verb', 'translating into a noun', 'translating into an adverb', 'not translated'. Among them, 'verb pattern' was the most frequent pattern. Moreover, according to Dixon's classification, there were five translation patterns: 'WANTING','BEGINNING','DECIDING','TRYING','LIKING'. These five patterns could be subdivided according to the form and features of translation. Although there were a lot of modality verbs, three interesting results were found. First, the'continue'of modality verb was translated not as an adverb but a noun. Second, the'want'of modality verb was translated with connective endings like'- go', '- ro'. Third, the'need'of modality verb was translated into two different meanings whether the translation of the subject is required or not.